[In case you caught that “sic” marker and wondered why it’s there, the Latin word “data” — like the Latin word “media” — is a plural noun and cannot properly be used with a singular verb such as “is” (“are” is grammatically correct, yet rarely used — even by the people who should know better).]

“... it is impossible to tell whether ice loss over the last few decades is out of the ordinary. It is also impossible to accurately extrapolate the gain or loss of sea ice out several decades into the future.”

[The NSIDC, for those who don’t know, is the National Sea Ice Data Center, a subsidiary of NOAA, the National Atmospheric and Atmospheric Administration, the head of which was appointed by Barack Obama.]

and…

NSIDC : Arctic Ice Extent Normal – For The First Time In At Least Seven Years

“The ruse of Antarctica ‘global warming’ continues to be undercut by the empirical evidence, both historical and modern. As of 2012, the modern warming of the Antarctica Peninsula is not ‘unprecedented’ no matter the claims of climate doomsday scientists.“

How may ASND readers have seen all the MLM “coverage” of the “record” arctic ice loss this year (2012)? Aside from the fact that it wasn’t actually a record (far from it, in fact), how many of you saw in the same MLM the actual reason why such a “record” low ice volume was reached?

Yes, that’s correct. According to NASA, the arctic ice loss in 2012 had almost nothing to do with a warm atmosphere and almost everything to do with warm ocean water, which isn’t warmed by the atmosphere but does – and did – melt most of the arctic ice this year.